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Text Message Reminders Don't Help Women Remember the Pill, Study Finds

Despite the good intentions of pilot programs that use text messages to remind people to take their meds, it seems that ladies on birth control can't even be persuaded by technology to swallow The Pill. According to a study published this month in Obstetrics and Gynecology, 82 women enrolled in a randomized trial at a Boston Planned Parenthood clinic set up to test the effectiveness of text ...

Abstinence Avatar Game Teaches Kids How to Avoid Sex, 'Winning' Is Really Losing

digg_url ='http://www.switched.com/2010/07/29/abstinence-avatar-game-teaches-kids-how-to-avoid-sex-winning/'; Now, this is exactly what we've been yearning for: a video game that teaches us how to be abstinent. With avatars. Because real gamers usually have dates galore, right? Researchers at the University of Central Florida have created just such a game, in the hopes of encouraging kids to ...